RAMEA, a shared environmental accounting tool to control and monitor regional environmental taxes

rAMeA is a regional nAMeA (national Accounting Matrix including environmental Accounts), an official and standardized statistical information system that gives the possibility to analyse the pressures placed on the environment by production and consumption activities, extending the economic aggregates with related environmental themes (at this stage focused on air emissions). We have integrated rAMeA matrix with a new theme on environmental taxes, following eurostat guidelines. We focused on the possibility of steering a sustainable economy, investigating the use of eco-taxes coordinated with rAMeA in order to improve the knowledge base to support policy makers. following eU directions, environmental taxes have long been an instrument to boost the behaviour change of citizens by giving monetary values to negative externalities on the environment, like polluting. The main attempt has been to control and monitor eco-taxes and revenues by means of rAMeA, thinking also of new shapes of eco- taxes and paying attention to global economic crises.